This is a slightly unusual shot of Freidrichstrasse station, which acted as a border between East and West Berlin during the cold war. I was amazed to discover (at the DDR museum) how the Berlin Wall affected the undergound lines (S-Bahn etc). Of course, the wall wasn't a straight line division of the city, and the trains crossed the broders and travelled under both parts of Berlin. In the East, those stations on lines which lead to or from the West (or both) were closed. Under Friedrichstrasse, two lines from the West met, I gather and it could be used as an interchange by West Berliners while remaining wholly under the East. The DDR authorities set up a border control in the station and it became one of the few places where people could travel between the regimes.
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